[xml] Re: Bug or User Error

[Igor Zlatkovic <igor zlatkovic com>]

Ron Ohmer wrote:
> Does anyone have a suggestion as to why I am getting an unhandled 
> exception on a doc=xmlParseFile(filename).

Which exception? Which platform? Which libxml version?

> It is around the 6th time it runs in a program (Same every time), so I 
> suspect it is running out of stack space..  After every run thru the 
> parser I am sure to run:
>
> xmlFreeDoc(doc);
>
> xmlCleanupParser();
>
> So, I am confused as to how I am leaving open memory out there.  My 
> stack is:
>  
> Program
> xmlSAXParseFile
> xmlInitParser
> xmlNewCharEncodingHandler
> xmlStrndup
> malloc
>  
> The malloc is the offending problem..

malloc offends you? I'm sorry. Unfortunately there exists no other 
portable way to allocate memory in C.

> Any suggestions?

Well, I can run "xmllint --repeat somefile.xml" and see it reparsing the 
document 100 times. No exceptions. Wow, the library indeed works and it 
doesn't leak memory.

What have you done wrong? No idea, can only tell after having debugged 
your code and that action I won't take.

It seems you'll have to recompile libxml with memory debugging enabled 
and show your debugger that you remember it still.

Ciao,
Igor